An Index Page. (created by GED4WEB version 3.10). Which includes a Surname Index (wife is under her maiden name), as well as an index sorted by First Name. These link to Ancestor Pedigree Charts, Descendants Report, and Family Charts

NOTE: E-mail jpegs, GEDCOMs, additions, and correction. Snail-mail photos (which I will return) or any information to be posted. You can fill in this online form with genealogies for each family. I would like to put up pictures that are old, or show families, or show celebrating holidays and doing interesting activities, and I'll post them.

Oral Histories
Interviews with Leon Sverdlove 11-Mar-2005. These are each about 30-minutes. These are hugh wave files until I leearn how to make them smaller MP3 files.

Audio #1: Sema liked to sing opera. She did so with a friend...Ethel Rosenberg!

Audio #5 Why Leon joined the National Guard and how he ended up met his wife, Sema. How he got beat up for carrying signs demanding Social Security and Unemployment Insurance and people didn't believe the government would ever care. Comments on the privitazation of Social Security. Camp Followers-of-the-Trail, and Camp Unity in Hopewell Junction, and Kinderland. All of which were Communist. At one of Bundest Meetings Selig, Leon's father, met Eva. For many years his family went to Scroon Lake in the Adirondacks. During WW II, Harry and Frieda had jobs on the WPA. Married people couldn't both work for the WPA, so they went to Montreal to marry and kept this secret in order to hold their jobs. Later they both past tests and became school teachers. During World War II, from Westover Field, he was off to Japan, on a transport, when in mid ocean, they learned an atom bomb was dropped on Japan. Of course no one knew what an atom bomb was. During the interval before he shipped off to Japan, he visited his brother and family in the Adironacks. [A jpeg is in my possession]. Why during basic training he was called "Murphy". Leon's formal education ended in 1926 (at sixteen years-old). Audio from a local television station that interview Leon. [background noise is my scanner and computer]. This interview became widely distributed. Even the Manchester Guardian in England. The 27-Aug-1949 and 4-Sep concerts by Paul Robeson in Cortlandt, New York.

An Index Page. (created by GED4WEB version 3.10). Which includes a Surname Index (wife is under her maiden name), as well as an index sorted by First Name. These link to Ancestor Pedigree Charts, Descendants Report, and Family Charts

NOTE: E-mail jpegs, GEDCOMs, additions, and correction. Snail-mail photos (which I will return) or any information to be posted. You can fill in this online form with genealogies for each family. I would like to put up pictures that are old, or show families, or show celebrating holidays and doing interesting activities, and I'll post them.